Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming today to appear before the committee.
In your remarks, you mentioned that sanctions have always been seen as an alternative to military force. With that in mind, I wonder whether you could tell the committee how effective sanctions are, in your view, as a tool in achieving restoration of international peace and security, democracy promotion, human rights protection, counterterrorism, and many other laudable goals that we would like to see in the international domain.